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Grade 8 Social Studies: Civil War & Reconstruction — Causes, Course, Consequences
1.
Answers vary: slavery, sectionalism, states' rights debates, economic differences
2.
freeing enslaved people; Proclamation announced freedom in rebelling areas
3.
period after the Civil War rebuilding the nation and defining freedom
4.
formal change to the Constitution
5.
13th ended slavery; 14th citizenship; 15th voting rights for Black men
6.
Answers vary: ended slavery legally, massive loss, Reconstruction debates, economic change
7.
Answers vary: unresolved slavery expansion, political crisis, secession
8.
withdrawal of Southern states from the Union
9.
period rebuilding nation after Civil War
10.
freeing enslaved people
11.
states leaving the Union
12.
abolished slavery
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